All morning we have been waiting for some Russian response to the announced, if so far unconfirmed, attacked by Ukraine on a Russian "military convoy". We got it moments ago. From Bloomberg:

UKRAINE SEEKS TO AGGRAVATE CONFLICT, DRAG IN RUSSIA: ZAKHAROVA

RUSSIA FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN ZAKHAROVA COMMENTS BY PHONE

UKRAINE'S STATEMENTS ON ARMED CONVOY `PROVOCATION': ZAKHAROVA

And remember what we said not even an hour ago: "as a reminder this is first and foremost a war of relentless propaganda on all sides", well Russia seems to agree:

UKRAINE'S REPORT ON CONVOY PART OF INFORMATION WAR: ZAKHAROVA

Time for the CIA to unleash the YouTube clips. And while we are waiting, perhaps Ukraine can finally release those MH-17 air traffic control recordings its secret police confiscated a month ago, and which the entire world forgot about?

Oh, and I wonder when the British and Dutch are going to release the black box recordings for MH17..... as in never? Could it be that they prove that Russia and Putin are innocent? If the recordings proved Russia's guilt, you can be damn certain that they would be blaring them 24/7 on all western/USSA controlled media.

+1 fonz. What was the amount? I don't know why anyone takes any of this seriously anymore. It stems from a fundamental acceptance of any 'official' looking or sounding data stream as truth. We're goners.

The comparisons are bogus. Who is going to fight with Russia? The other BRICS? China would love to let them hasten their own demise and I'm pretty sure Brazil and India are not going to go to war with the US...

why do they all have to go to war? seems to me that all Russia and the BRICS need to do is be patient, avoid the provocations, and allow the zio banker cabal empire to collapse under the weight of its own stinking dead body.

I generally get along just fine with Russians. They generally get along just fine with me. The US squandered an opportunity after 9/11 to really put a lid on the muslim goat fuckers once and for all. But I guess renting the House of Saud/Israel was more important to our leaders.

Please, it's much simpler. South America produces and exports a shitload more oil than they consume. All they have to do is stop the flow of oil or demand payment in Real. Regardless of who attacks who, stop the flow of spice or the exchange of spice for dollars and life changes overnight for Americans. You can debate whether those changes would be good or bad.

Bombing the shit out of Russia is off limits, just like bombing the shit of the US mainland is.

Look at how everyone in NYC was so terrified of a couple measly commercial airliners (and perhaps a few hundred pounds of C4) on 9/11/01. Now imagine every single building in NYC coming down at once...

All else is subtle or overt Tyranny -- no matter how it's packaged of presented. Modern History has relevant Case Precedents, for example:

A. US/NATO imposing its political and military will on Serbia vis-a-vis its Autonomous Region of Kosovo (and national homeland of Serbs).

B. US/NATO imposing its political and military will on the Genocides/Ethnic-Cleansing (mass murders) in Bosnia

C. Peaceful and process-drive dissolution of Czechoslovakia, and the creation of the Czech Republic and of Slovakia

The double-standard and odious hypocrisy of the US (and its subsidiary NATO) reeks to high heaven in the case of the "Free will of the People of Crimea, and of the East Ukraine". In fact, the same can be said for Ukraine itself -- insofar their lawfully elected government was taken over in a Coup led by Fascist (Neo-Nazi) extremists, and said Coup organized and funded by Foreign Powers (in the US and ME).

I view of the above Principles and Case History, the US (and its subsidiary NATO) simply have NO legal or moral ground for their positions and actions. At best they are acting as hypocrites of global scale, and at worst they act as War Criminals - whose leadership needs to be treated and prosecuted as such.

Kiev is getting their asses kicked in the real war (excluding Kiev attacks on unarmed civilians) by the militia, so it's extremely hard to believe that they could best Russia in any kind of conflict. I don't think an attack on Russia's convoy or armed forces happened. Maybe Kiev is trying to convince the home audience they're fighting Russians so as to have an excuse as to why they're losing so badly. Read some of the following news blurbs to see the outcomes of various battles between the militia and Kiev.

Little brother a little bigger than thought? The real question is what about the USA. Didn't we go to Kiev to lay the flowers for the fallen? London has already called in the Russian Ambassador to demand an explanation.

All this is stupid and rather counterproductive. Why doesn't Obama and Eastern Ukraine just let it go? Don't hold your breath for Putin to back-off or back-down, he has put down his marker and is now playing both Obama and Kerry for fools in a contest that cost Russia little. It is likely that if If Putin doesn't get Eastern Ukraine next week he will next month or next year at the latest. More on this subject in the article below.

Secretaries of State Klimkin (Ukr) and Lawrow (Rus) are meeting in Berlin on Sunday. Germany's Steinmeier and France's Laurent are hosting the meeting. If both adversaries show up for the talks, they are one step closer to finding a peaceful resolution. No word on whether or not Kerry will be present.

Oh and not that it matters but Germany's intel BND has spied on Hillary Clinton.

"You are insane, literally mentally ill, to feel Russia was/is threatened by such a small nation."

Let's see where my "propaganda" has flaws, shell we?

Small bastard Saakashvilli(his arrest worrant issued in Georgia, as of today), pumped with american money(Georgia-country that has George Bush Jr avenue in it's capital -Tbilisi...) desides that he is capable to attack and kill russian citizens, russian military ,wich was placed there by UN and... he does it!

Do you know of ANY country that would do different of what russia did? Let's say it was US, China, Israel, France, e.t.c.

Are you out of your mind? Becouse it's Georgia - that's why they didn't level it compleetly... Russia quite capabele to turn any country or the rest of the world in to the moon like landscape.

It was not a question of Russia feeling threatened by Georgia. It was a question of Georgia initiating hostilities (confirmed by an EU study) when it shelled the S. Ossetian capital. Russia had been granted peace keeping authority over the province by the UN. It acted accordingly.

The Russian president at the time was D. A. Medvedev. He shared V. V. Putin's view that Russia will not be, as Putin put it, "cannon fodder for the New World Order."

Putin's concern about US intentions stems from Washington's pattern of agression since the end of the Cold War against Russian interests -- our unprovoked and entirely illegal assault on Serbia, followed by an equally dubious US assault on Iraq, efforts to overthrow the Syrian and Libyan governments and our successful (violent) overthrow of the legitmately elected Yanukovich administration in Ukraine, Putin sees the pattern --all were friends and allies of Russia.

In 2008 (before Syria, Libya and Ukraine), Moscow saw Saakashvili's criminal actions as part and parcell of a US campaing against it. Moreover, Saakashvili attacked shortly after Condaleeza Rice had left Tbilisi, giving rise to the notion in Moscow that Washington had given the attack at least tacit approval.

I like that one, it's "credible". Personally I support Russian lies over Ukraine/US/NATO lies in this war. If Porkchop really did fuck up Putin's advance column via ambush I hope Vlad finds a way to fix it and keep going. It's war now , Russia is under a zionist organized NATO attack and winning is all that matters, truth be damned.